Proscription vs. Prescription

Proscriptionnoun

A prohibition.

Proscriptionnoun

(history) Decree of condemnation toward one or more persons, especially in the Roman antiquity.

Proscriptionnoun

The act of proscribing, or its result.

Proscriptionnoun

A decree or law that prohibits.

Proscriptionnoun

The act of proscribing; a dooming to death or exile; outlawry; specifically, among the ancient Romans, the public offer of a reward for the head of a political enemy; as, under the triumvirate, many of the best Roman citizens fell by proscription.

Proscriptionnoun

The state of being proscribed; denunciation; interdiction; prohibition.

Proscriptionnoun

a decree that prohibits something

Proscriptionnoun

rejection by means of an act of banishing or proscribing someone

Proscription

Proscription (Latin: proscriptio) is, in current usage, a 'decree of condemnation to death or banishment' (Oxford English Dictionary) and can be used in a political context to refer to state-approved murder or banishment. The term originated in Ancient Rome, where it included public identification and official condemnation of declared enemies of the state and it often involved confiscation of property.Its usage has been significantly widened to describe governmental and political sanctions of varying severity on individuals and classes of people who have fallen into disfavor, from the en masse suppression of adherents of unorthodox ideologies to the suppression of political rivals or personal enemies.

Prescriptionnoun

(legal)

Prescriptionnoun

The act of prescribing a rule, law, etc..

Prescriptionnoun

Also called limitation and negative prescription. A time period within which a right must be exercised, unless the right will be extinguished.

Prescriptionnoun

Also called acquisitive prescription and positive prescription. A time period after which a person who has, in the role of an owner, uninterruptedly, peacefully, and publicly possessed another's property acquires the property. The described process is known as acquisition by prescription and adverse possession.

Prescriptionnoun

A written order, as by a physician or nurse practitioner, for the administration of a medicine or other intervention. See also scrip.

Prescriptionnoun

(medicine) The prescription medicine or intervention so prescribed.

Prescriptionnoun

(ophthalmology) The formal description of the lens geometry needed for spectacles, etc..

Prescriptionnoun

(linguistics) The act or practice of prescribing norms of language usage. See also prescriptivism.

Prescriptionnoun

(linguistics) An instance of a prescriptive pronouncement.

Prescriptionnoun

A plan or procedure to obtain a given end result; a recipe.

Prescriptionadjective

only available with a physician or nurse practitioner's written prescription

Prescriptionnoun

The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.

Prescriptionnoun

A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy.

Prescriptionnoun

A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a thing by virtue of immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or title acquired by possession had during the time and in the manner fixed by law.

Prescriptionnoun

directions prescribed beforehand; the action of prescribing authoritative rules or directions;

Prescriptionnoun

a drug that is available only with written instructions from a doctor or dentist to a pharmacist;

Prescriptionnoun

written instructions for an optician on the lenses for a given person

Prescriptionnoun

written instructions from a physician or dentist to a druggist concerning the form and dosage of a drug to be issued to a given patient

Prescriptionadjective

available only with a doctor's written prescription;